Re: [OT] Linux Users

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hi Urs,

Am 18.11.2017 um 16:04 schrieb Urs Liska:
> Am 18.11.2017 um 15:59 schrieb Jan-Peter Voigt:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Am 18.11.2017 um 15:44 schrieb Hwaen Ch'uqi:
> > > However, when a mix of text and music is involved, I use LilyPond's
> > > rather robust \markup and \markuplist commands, finding lilypond-book
> > > to be too cumbersome or specific.
> > sometimes I typeset a preface text for a LilyPond document. I use a 
> > markup command that starts XeLaTeX to create a PDF, exports all pages 
> > into EPS-files with pdftops and then imports them as a markuplist. 
> > Sounds complicated, but is actually easy to use.
>
> I assume this set-up doesn't have any notion of page breaks?
> So it isn't possible to split the text blocks into multiple parts?.
yes and no: If the text doesn't fit in one block, that is page in the 
PDF, it is separated into multiple EPS-file. Those files are then 
included in a markup-list.

> It would be great if LIlyPond would know where *on the page* the markup 
> block would start, That way it would be possible to pass that info to 
> LaTeX (in the form of paper size and geometry info) and create one or 
> multiple files with the typeset text, which would then just fit onto the 
> remaining space on the score paper.
>
> Urs
Right now it is not possible to have different page sizes per page to 
start on the remaining space of one page and then add another full-sized 
page.
The width and height of the EPS-markup-blocks is retrieved from the 
paper/layout information and then adapted/calculated for the 
paper-size/geometry information in the LaTeX-code. Optionally width 
and/or height can be set manually via markup-override-command.
Perhaps I will create an OLL-package ...

Jan-Peter